OpenOffice-2.4.1 not saving to NFS mounted directories

[semi-ambivalent]

My system's /home is nfs mounted from a server and OO-2.4.1 just won't
open from or save to it. I've seen some posts elsewhere about this so
I don't think this is particular to my system or to FBSD. Anybody know
if there is a fix for 2.4.x now, or in place in 3.0, or how far back
I'd have to go in the 2.x series to get this to work? I no longer have
space enough for compiling from ports, so I'm left with packages. (Or,
the OO core team could rectify that 10GB build space bullshit.)

thx,

tf

[Michel Talon]

I have seen that. But, it worked for me after i had enabled NFS
locking. OpenOffice wants to lock its stuff and will not work if it
cannot do it. Theproblem is that this requires some cooperation from the
server, so if you cannot have access to the NFS server and locking is
not enabled here you have bad luck. On your side, you need:
rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
rpc_statd_enable="YES"

After that you can test if locking works using the command lockf. For
example:
#!/bin/sh

lockf -k $1 sleep 10 &
sleep 3
lockf -k -s -t 0 $1 echo BAD || echo GOOD
wait

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Michel TALON

[thef...@gmail.com]

On Aug 17, 11:12 am, ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel Talon) wrote:

Thank you! It works now, almost like, magic!

tf